Each workshop will help you to identify the cause and the effect of tension patterns that can lead to chronic pain and injuries. Each series is new and individualized with the aim to release tension and pain from your mind and body as it is today. Gentle traction poses will be used for bringing newfound strength and elasticity in the body; wall ropes and other specialized props will be used for opening stuck tight parts of the body.

Presented in simple language, Julia will demonstrate alignment principles for achieving balance, core strength and deep breathing as they apply to various body regions and conditions. The activities of daily living including sitting, standing and moving will become sources of healing and less sources of stress, tension and pain. You will gain a deeper sense of resilience from the wear and tear of life as you move through the world.

Guided meditations taught in class help you to calm your reactions to the stresses of life. They provide a quiet place to relax in your own stable presence and to discover yourself more healed and whole. In meditation, the wayward mind is led back to its own source, your own benign presence, simple and free.

These guided meditations are based in non-dual teachings from the Bhagavad Gita as taught by Swami Dayananda.

JULIA LORIMER, Certified Yoga Therapist, has specialized in pain management for three decades combining Iyengar Yoga Therapeutics with anatomically detailed deep tissue therapy. She has studied extensively with the BKS Iyengar family in Pune, India as well as with renowned Senior Iyengar teachers including Manouso Manos, Ramandand Patel in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Julia is a Sanskrit scholar, a Vedanta and Meditation teacher, and an expert in Sanskrit Chanting. She is the creator and Founder of Meta Yoga- a program for healing chronic pain at five levels: Physically, Vitality, Emotionally, Mentally and Spiritually. Her mission is to empower people with the courage and knowledge to heal themselves and to lead more productive and fulfilling lives.

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Jamie will give a special class at the end of each month devoted to poses (asanas) of deep relaxation and restoration.

“These asanas are known as Visranta Karaka asanas and are meant to rest the organic body. Each organ is as though separated from the others in order to oxygenate and rest. With the knife of consciousness and awareness, one is able to dissect the body from inside.
However, one has to prolong the duration of stay in the asanas five to ten minutes, in order to have recovery” Geeta S. Iyengar

Messages we have received throughout our lives have reinforced a subtle disapproval of talk about women's bodies "down there." We pay a price for maintaining a polite distance from our hips and what lies between them.

This workshop will attempt to shed light on the appearance, function/dysfunction and maintenance of this most powerful and intimate of our bodily parts. Many women have come to this subject seeking an alternative to surgery for their issues with prolapse, incontinence and pelvic pain. Through the instruction and practice of yoga, overly tight pelvic floor muscles can be relaxed and too loose muscles can be strengthened, bringing understanding and relief to those experiencing discomfort in the pelvic region. Physical postures and exercises will make up a part of this workshop and can be done with or without a background in yoga.

SUSAN McCORMICK has been practicing yoga for the past 20 years, teaching since 2008 and studies regularly with senior Iyengar teachers. Interest in strengthening her pelvic floor to avoid surgery led her to seek out experts in the fields of physical therapy and pelvic floor yoga. She received teacher training and certification to teach pelvic floor work from Leslie Howard and is the lead instructor for UCSF’s onging study on incontinence and yoga. Empowering women who are struggling with the effects of pelvic floor dysfunction is important to her and evident in her gentle but precise manner of teaching.